Cardeen’s idea of a welco party was as follows.
‘I’ll feed these poor freshn until they whine that they’re too full to eat anymore.’
Originally, by now, the freshn would have been forcing food into their bellies, reaching their limit.
Then, using their complaints as an excuse, he planned to teach them a lesson and instill proper manners.
Though it might be a tough and painful mory for them now, it would eventually turn into nostalgia.
However, things were taking an unexpected turn.
“Look over there! The food we prepared is already gone!”
“What? That’s impossible. I calculated everything!”
It was common knowledge that an Awakened’s physical capabilities were superior to those of non-Awakened individuals.
That’s why they not only used the departnt funds but even dipped into their own pockets to prepare a massive amount of food.
Yet the consumption rate was faster than anticipated.
The previously abundant food had dwindled to almost nothing.
“Senior! Look over there!”
“Cardeen! That girl!”
The culprit was quickly identified.
A sophomore pointed to a playful-looking girl hopping around.
The girl, her shimring golden hair bouncing, headed to another table.
She casually grabbed a whole cake allocated to a table with both hands and stuffed it into her mouth.
In the blink of an eye, the cake disappeared.
She went from table to table, grabbing cakes.
Every ti she scooped up a handful, the freshn’s faces lit up with joy.
“I’ll eat this! No need for permission!”
“You’re eating it for us? Thanks!”
Eventually, the girl set her sights on a shelf still loaded with food.
Without bothering with tongs, she began shoving food from the shelf into her mouth.
In just a short ti, the food vanished.
“What on earth? Is it magic?”
“There’s no spellwork or magic circle in play!”
It clearly wasn’t being discarded.
The Awakened eyes of those watching confird that the food disappeared straight into the girl’s mouth.
The conclusion was simple.
That girl was eating everything.
Cardeen was furious that the freshn’s welco party wasn’t going the way he planned.
“Where the hell did that glutton co from?!”
“No way, Senior! Who would’ve thought one of the freshn could eat like that?!”
A sophomore lanted, only to receive a slap from an angry Cardeen.
‘Our departnt’s traditions are being ruined!’
They had deliberately prepared greasy, salty, and hard-to-eat food to make overeating burdenso.
Even the beverages were intentionally limited.
Just like Cardeen himself had experienced in the past.
Fuming, Cardeen stord over to the troubleso girl with his peers.
“You! What’s your na?”
“I’m Violet!”
The source of all the trouble smiled brightly, and rage flared within Cardeen.
This girl, Violet, had ruined everything.
“Senior! I’ve eaten it all. Can I leave now?”
Now that he took a closer look, her eyes sparkled with mischief.
Suppressing his anger, he opened his mouth.
He was determined to teach her a lesson.
“No, there’s still more we can offer to our juniors.”
“Yes, Senior! Hehe.”
Cardeen turned around, and the puzzled students asked him questions.
“Cardeen, what are you going to do now? She ate all the food we prepared.”
“Let’s just stop. This is pointless…”
Their protests only fueled his fiery temper.
“…Shut up.”
“What? Why are you like this all of a sudden?”
“Get your heads straight! This is our departnt’s tradition. Are you trying to ruin it?”
The painful mories from two years ago vividly resurfaced in Cardeen’s mind.
‘Chew and swallow it! Freshn! This is the path your seniors walked before you. Aren’t you ashad?’
‘I’ll do it, Senior! I can do it!’
It was a rite of passage.
He had eaten over twenty tasteless, dry pieces of bread without any water.
Mustering all his willpower, he forced them down his throat.
For those who failed to swallow, a magic-infused kick awaited them.
He had managed to persevere.
‘Congratulations. You’re now a proud student of our departnt.’
‘Yes, Senior! Thank you!’
It had been tough, but looking back, it was a source of pride.
In contrast, look at these weak freshn.
Compared to back then, they were surrounded by delicious food. Yet they complained like children, whining about being full.
Compared to what he had endured, they were fortunate.
This tradition had to be upheld.
It was what their seniors had done before them, and they had passed it down.
He had endured it, so it was only fair the juniors did too.
“Alright, let’s show them.”
“What are you going to do?”
“I’ll cover the cost, so buy more food!”
Cardeen threw his card from his wallet.
His peers placed the order, and the sophomores rushed to buy food to feed the black hole of a girl’s stomach.
If they didn’t, they feared the wrath of their third-year representative.
Soon, a mountain of food was prepared.
“So, Violet, is it? You must’ve been really hungry.”
“Yes! That’s right.”
The dynamic of the welco party had grown bizarre.
Violet sat alone at the table, surrounded by a mix of first-years, second-years, and seniors watching her closely.
Violet thought to herself.
‘This feels like I’m filming a mukbang.’
The seniors, no longer hiding their intentions, acted blatantly.
It was obvious they wanted her to give in.
Even more unnerving were the expectant gazes from her fellow first-years, who now looked at her with admiration.
‘I’ve suddenly beco the savior of the first-years.’
Other Violets, sharing her perspective through No. 7’s link, chid in.
-What’s the plan? You’ve been discreetly transferring the bigger portions so far, but now there are too many eyes.-
-I’ll have to tear and send smaller pieces. That’s the only way.-
The door opened, and students wheeled in carts laden with food.
The variety was impressive: bananas, hardtack, pizza…
The one common trait?
All the items would be hard to digest without drinks.
“Alright, Violet. Enjoy your al!”
‘Let’s see if you can stomach this too.’
Encouraged by their mock cheer, Violet grinned and began eating.
She discreetly tore the food into bite-sized pieces, pretending to chew before transferring them via teleportation.
The transferred food traveled hundreds of kiloters to other waiting Violets in the central and southwestern regions.
-Sort them into baskets. This will be our daily provisions.-
-Don’t forget to put everything into inventory once sorted!-
-Ugh! It’s covered in saliva!-
In unavoidable cases, she teleported food directly from her mouth.
It was ssy, but it was still her bodily fluids, so it wasn’t too concerning.
After a while, Cardeen and the seniors were stunned.
“Hey… what kind of trick are you using?!”
“I just ate everything as you told to, Senior!”
The girl smiled brightly, almost mockingly.
The food they had prepared disappeared into her mouth in monts.
“Buy more!”
Cardeen ordered more food again.
Even as his peers tried to stop him, Cardeen refused to relent.
They continued bringing food to feed the seemingly bottomless girl.
“Here’s a giant-sized cake. Try this too!”
“Wow! A chocolate mousse cake! Thank you!”
Now, both juniors and seniors alike gazed at Violet with awe.
‘What on earth is inside her stomach?!’
Soone at the scene recalled an ancient legend.
A monster so plagued by hunger that it devoured even itself, leaving behind only clattering gums.
Perhaps this girl was such a creature?
After finishing the last cake, Violet wiped her hands on the tablecloth and stood up.
Her gleaming ruby-like eyes mockingly scanned the seniors.
“I finished everything without leaving a single crumb. May I leave now?”
The seniors, mouths agape, stepped back.
“Hey! Why aren’t you bringing more food?!”
Behind them, Cardeen whispered furiously into his phone.
He received an unexpected response.
-Senior! Your card was declined!-
“What?!”
Cardeen opened his banking app to check the balance.
The 200,000 credits of allowance he had left were completely drained.
It was empty.
“My… my money!”
Feeling defeated, he slumped to the ground, only to be helped up by his peers.
The blonde girl walked past him, her classmates chanting, “Violet! Violet!” and waving their arms.
Was this the end? Should he let her go?
As Cardeen stared blankly at the freshn’s parade, he suddenly realized it wasn’t over.
“…Hey, mix those up and bring them out! No way I’m letting her, or the others, leave scot-free! Let’s make them eat this!”
“What? Wasn’t that for after everything was over?”
“The welco party is ruined anyway! Just serve it now.”
“But alcohol is prohibited on campus…”
“It’s fine!”
At his command, the sophomores brought out a large bucket.
They began mixing various drinks and liquors into it, creating a potent concoction.
“Even one sip of this will knock you out instantly. Let’s see if she can handle this too!”
“Alright, freshn! You can’t leave just yet. There’s still one more thing!”
Violet’s gaze shifted to the bucket her senior placed on the table.
A strong alcoholic stench wafted from it.
“What is this?”
“This is the Elixir of Courage that every departnt student drinks at the end of the welco party.”
“Elixir of Courage?”
“That’s right! We’re giving it to you because we’re so proud of you. Have a sip! You too, everyone else, line up!”
Violet picked up the bucket just in case and used her status window.
Muddled Elixir of the Dungeon Strategy Managent Departnt ☆★★★★
A bomb drink made by mixing various strong liquors and bitter, unpleasant beverages.
While harmless to Awakened individuals, it will cause severe hangovers.
Drinking this reckless concoction borders on madness rather than courage.
‘What the… This is nothing.’
The hangover was quite severe, but it didn’t seem to matter.
“…So, if you want to leave, you each have to drink this one cup, alright?”
Beside , Cardeene was explaining to a first-year who was glaring at him, but Violet quickly interrupted, lifting a bucket in the air.
“If I just finish all of this, it’ll be fine, right? Well then, here I go!”
“What? Wait, hey! Stop! That’s for everyone, not just for you…”
“Uh… What? Hey! That’s not for you to drink all by yourself! Put it down!”
Violet chuckled lightly and, despite the protests around her, poured the entire contents of the bucket down her throat.
Although people around tried to stop her, it was too late.
Of course, Violet had already planned for this. No. 7 imdiately activated her clones.
-Move, right now, to the restroom or outside!-
-You’re saying we transfer the liquid right after drinking it? It’s doable, but kind of gross.-
Her clones urgently ran to the bathroom or outside.
-Blech!-
-Spit, spit!-
The plan worked. After drinking, 7 transferred the liquid to her clones far away, who imdiately spat it out.
Of course, it wasn’t perfect—so of the liquor inevitably went down her throat.
However, she had a second thod to fall back on.
Sensory distribution.
[The taste and sll felt by the entity are distributed and dulled according to the number of clones—Dulling rate: 5%]
The initial revulsion she felt from swallowing it quickly faded.
-Whatever they mixed in this, it tastes absolutely awful!-
-Ugh! I ended up drinking a little bit!-
“Wha… She drank all that alcohol…”
“Unbelievable…”
Having emptied the bucket, Violet tossed it onto the ground, where it rolled with a hollow clang.
“Hehe, senior, can we leave now?”
“Ah… Ah… Even the departnt’s specialty bomb… I an, elixir… You finished it all… I lose…”
Cardeene slumped to the ground in defeat. Violet strode past the dejected seniors like a triumphant general.
“Hey! Open the door!”
“…Alright.”
One of the seniors, looking hesitant, ca over and opened the door.
Violet walked out.
“Violet! Violet! Violet!”
“Violet is a legend!”
She barely managed to shake off the first-years following her with cheers and walked across the campus.
“Hehehe… I won!”
Her body felt slightly buzzed.
Transferring everything was apparently impossible; she must have ingested so.
Violet tried to dilute the effect further.
[Warning: Violet No. 7 has entered a state of intoxication!]
“Huh… Sensory distribution doesn’t work on intoxication?”
[Warning: Violet No. 11 has entered a state of intoxication!]
[Warning: Violet No. 8 has entered a state of intoxication!]
[Warning: Violet No. 9 has entered a state of intoxication!]
…
-Hey! During the transfer process, so of the others consud it, and now they’re in bad shape…-
-Hehehe! Life is amazing!-
-Kyahihihi!-
It seed the alcohol was stronger than expected. Was it calibrated for soone adept at physical enhancent?
Violet was still inexperienced in that area.
Staggering through the street as the sun set, Violet noticed people staring at her with astonished eyes.
“The world~ is spinning~”
-Thud!
Violet collapsed onto the ground. She could no longer distinguish anything.
“Hehehe…”
-Hey! Recall No. 7! And all the other intoxicated ones too!-
-We can’t, there are too many people around. We’ll have to wait a bit.-
-Heehee! Sounds good!-
-She’s going to end up sleeping on the street at this rate!-
-Ehehehehe!-
Amidst the chaos caused by her intoxicated clones, Violet crawled into a bush by the roadside and fell asleep.
“Hehehehe…”
No thoughts crossed her mind. Violet curled up like a shrimp and drifted into slumber. It was cold… Freezing cold.
-Hey, isn’t this the girl who sits next to us?-
-Oh… W-What do we do! Is she dead…?-
-No, I think she’s just drunk. Let’s take her to the infirmary just in case.-
She vaguely felt herself being lifted. Violet lost consciousness completely.
“Heheheng…”
Dizzy, so dizzy.
My head throbbed intensely.
Even breathing felt difficult.
Why did it hurt so much?
I was in an unfamiliar place.
I was walking along a quiet street when masked figures approached .
Instinctively, I was terrified and tried to run.
“No! Get away from !”
But I was quickly restrained.
-Vrrrrr!
From the backs of the masked figures ca bizarre chanical noises.
Nurous chanical arms shot out haphazardly.
I scread.
“What? No! Get away! Get away!”
The machines began to cut into my body.
Among them, the largest, most terrifying, sharpest one lood toward my head.
I couldn’t resist.
It hurt.
It hurt so much.
Stop. Please stop.
“Uwaaah…”
Like a butterfly trapped between the fingers of a malicious child, like a worm crushed underfoot, like a fish dropped onto a burning grill, I writhed.
I moved.
“No…”
It hurts. Please, stop.
“Mom…”
I desperately called out to soone.
No one answered.
I was alone.
Alone…
As I flailed in agony,
a warm green light descended from afar.
…Are you okay? I’m here.
A kind voice, familiar yet unfamiliar, reached .
The warm green light grew larger.
The things tornting —the masked n, the chanical arms, everything—began to lt away in the light.
“Mom..?”
The voice spoke again.
It faltered as if hesitant.
Though fragnted, it was soft and warm.
…Yes… It’s … I’m here. You’re not in pain. It’s alright now.
Help , no, stop tornting …
…No one will tornt you anymore… You’ll be fine… Be strong.
…Got it? I’ll say it again. I’m here.
The gentle curtain of pale green light drew nearer.
It enveloped .
I floated upward.
I soared.
“…Ugh!?”
I, No. 7, opened my eyes and sat up.
“Where am I…”
It was a simple but cozy room.
Clearly not my dorm.
My room doesn’t have curtains like this.
When I sat up, I noticed soone tightly holding both of my hands.
Their hands were soft.
My blurry vision gradually focused, and I finally saw who was holding .
“Rugilinn, are you okay?”
A silver-haired girl with blue eyes looked at with concern. Her gaze made my heart flutter uneasily.
“Seems like you had a bad dream.”
For so reason, Daphne looked at with pity, as if I were a critical patient.
Feeling burdened, I quickly changed the subject.
“Daphne…? Why are you here? And where is this place?”
“This is the infirmary. Those people brought you here. Why were you sleeping on the street?”
Turning my head, I saw two students sitting opposite Daphne.
A black-haired girl with twin tails and a large guy… no, he was a student.
“Um, I don’t rember your nas…”
“Le-Levi!”
“Granite.”
“Oh! From yesterday, the ones who sat next to during orientation!”
Now I rembered.
“Why are you two here? And ?”
“You…don’t rember?”
“Looks like she forgot.”
I couldn’t recall. Let’s try to piece things together.
-Seven! You’re awake! I thought you were dead.-
-Is it hard to recall? Let share it directly!-
Through the Violet Network, my other selves sent the mories back.
Specifically, their recollection of my situation.
Last night, so seniors tried to haze us with food, so I transferred everything and made fun of them. Then they brought out a bucket, and despite their protests, I drank the whole thing. ᚱÁ𝐍ồꞖËꞩ
I went outside and… got sleepy. I collapsed.
‘Ugh! Drinking and passing out on the street, seriously!’
“Excuse , but are you feeling alright now?”
As I tried to sort through my thoughts, embarrassnt washed over . Collapsing on the street, not even making it to my dorm…
Just then, soone carefully pulled back the curtain and entered.
Everyone’s attention turned toward her.
A girl with violet hair braided neatly, exuding confidence, appeared.
“Violet Rugilinn, correct?”
“Huh? That’s . But who are you…”
The girl t my curious gaze and bowed politely.
“Irene Solstice, first-year student representative. May I have a mont of your ti?”
It was the girl from the entrance ceremony.
A five-star playable character.
A girl brimming with a sense of justice.
I figured we’d cross paths eventually, but I didn’t expect it to happen here.
“I’ve got ti! So, what’s… Ugh!”
“Rugilinn! Please, lie back down!”
My head spun again.
Must be the hangover.
It seed like any serious conversation would have to wait.
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